Lorna the Jungle Girl #10
Jungle War
While swinging through the jungle, Lorna the Jungle Girl suddenly hears war drums, sounding that the local tribes are about to go to war. While elsewhere in the jungle, Greg Knight secretly spies on the Wakabu tribe and their leader the witch doctor known as Jozaba, who is calling his people to arms to fight against the rival Baki tribe, and also calls for the death of Lorna. Seeing this as yet another reason why Lorna has no place in the jungle, Greg decides to make sure that she does not get hurt.
Meanwhile, Lorna hears the answering war drums of the Baki people and goes to them and tries to convince them to allow her to talk to the leader of the Wakabu in order to maintain the peace. Greg Knight arrives just as she fails to convince the Baki to stop going to war. He ties up her wrists and sends her off on his horse in order to insure that she does not get into harms way. However, Lorna's pet monkey Mikki quickly unties her bonds.
She rushes to the battle field where the Wakabu and Baki tribes have met to battle and demands that they both cease hostilities. Jozaba orders his men to attack and Lorna tries to fight back, but Greg Knight once more intervenes, pulling her out of the battle field. He once more ties her up, but this time Mikki drops a coconut on his head, knocking Greg out. Freed from her bonds once more, Lorna then enters the fray again and forces the Baki to stand down or throw their spears at her. Jozaba then orders his people to slay the "interloper" meaning Lorna, but his tribe finally seeing the errors of his war, turn on Jozaba and kill him instead. The two tribes then part in peace and Lorna slips back to where Greg is knocked out and ties her hands up so when Greg comes to she lets him believe he was the one who maintained the peace among the tribes.
Recurring Characters
Lorna the Jungle Girl
Greg Knight
Mikki
Terror of the White Fang!
Greg Knight is about to go out on an expedition and once again refuses to let Lorna join him, once again telling her that he does not believe a woman's place is in the jungle. Lorna presses the issue telling Greg that he is going into gorilla country and she knows the area better than him. Greg flat out refuses and goes along, but Lorna decides to secretly follow him to insure that he stays out of danger.
As Greg goes through gorilla country, he comes across a baby gorilla and picks it up. This angers the gorilla's parent who stalks up behind Greg. Seeing this, Lorna swoops in warning Greg, but finds that he is in a state of shock and cannot move. Lorna keeps the gorilla away until Mikki can get the baby out of Greg's arms and return it to its parent. The adult gorilla then leaves them alone with its baby. Lorna however has another problem: Greg is still in a state of shock from the near death experience and takes him back to M'Tuba's tribe to be treated.
Soon the fear of the father gorilla threatening the tribe becomes a reality and Lorna decides to go and stop the ape on the rampage before it can harm anyone. However as she travels through the jungle she is captured in a net thrown by communist agents. While most of them want to kill Lorna, their leader finds her too lovely and wants to keep her as his trophy. Lorna tries to warn them of the gorilla but they refuse to listen to them. When the gorilla finally approaches, the leader of the communist refuses to let Lorna go, and is shot by one of his subordinates.
Suddenly the gorilla is upon them and it makes easy work of them. Lorna is surprised when the baby gorilla suddenly jumps out of the bushes and into Lorna's arms. Realizing their errant child is why the gorillas are on the rampage again, Lorna returns the child to them and they leave peacefully. Lorna returns to M'Tuba's village to find that Greg has recovered from his shock.
Recurring Characters
Lorna the Jungle Girl
Greg Knight
M’Tuba
Mikki
Journey of Death!
Greg Knight has just finished an expedition to capture a number of animals for an American investor and has the animals prepared for shipping right away as they will not have the chance to ship the animals for weeks after the fact. While not far away a group of hijackers led by a man named Muggs seek to steal the animals from Greg's safari.
When Greg and his party reach High Falls they are attacked by the hijackers and in order to foil them they purposely let the animals loose. To their surprise they watch as the animals attack and slay the poachers. Muggs tries to get away diving into the river that feeds from High Falls but gets swept over the water fall to his doom. Surprised by this turn events, Greg is even more surprised when the animals return to their cages, allowing Greg to continue shipping them to port to be transported.
Recurring Characters
Greg Knight
Monster from the Deep!
While tending to crops M'Tuba tells Lorna about how the long dormant volcano on Mount Inferno provided the rich soil when it last erupted, but warns Lorna that even a long dormant can come back to life to threaten again. Troubled by M'Tuba's fears, Lorna confides in Greg that M'Tuba fears that the volcano will become active again. Greg reacts poorly, deciding to lock Lorna up in a cage in order to prevent her from getting into more trouble. Greg then storms off, telling Lorna the volcano will remain dormant. However as he stalks off he fails to see Lorna's pet monkey Mikki following behind him.
Just then Mount Inferno suddenly erupts, just as Mikki returns with the key to the cage. As Lorna is freeing herself she is shocked to see a massive creature climbing out of the volcano and realizes that it is the cause of the eruption. As the villagers flee from the monster and the flow of lava, Lorna notices that Greg has went toward the danger. She swings by on a vine to see Greg trying to shoot the creature, surrounded by lava. Lorna scoops Greg up but as they pass over the creature, it snaps the vine trapping both on the creature's back.
Suddenly an army of birds comes out of the jungle and attack the creature, and during the attack, Greg and Lorna grab two large birds and use them to fly to safety. They then watch as the birds force the monster to flee back into the volcano, and another eruption destroys the creature. Then, Mount Inferno goes dormant again, and when Lorna and Greg wonder why the birds attacked the monster they realize it was to protect their newly hatched children.
Recurring Characters
Lorna the Jungle Girl
Greg Knight
M’Tuba
Mikki
